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August 19th, 2008 at 10:49 am
He lost my interest when He said a .45 shoots a 230 gram projectile. I’d have said it there, but I saw no way to comment.
August 19th, 2008 at 11:21 am
As one who makes a few typos occasionally, I overlooked it.
August 19th, 2008 at 10:13 pm
Not a few typos, LOTS of amateurish statements and mistakes. Reads like my 10 year old niece did a report on survival guns for 4th grade.
“Now different cartridges will be more or less expensive. Using a better powder, it propels the bullet to the target, increases the cost.”
Better powder propels the bullet?
“308 is used for medium game, deer. 30.06 is used for larger game like elk”
Really? ‘Cause, from here, if I squint, I can’t tell any difference in performance, and neither can the elk.
“8mm is used in the German Mauser rifle of World War 2 fame. 30.06 was the cartridge used by the US in World War 2, and the .303 was used by the British in World War 2.
“7.62X54R is special. The Russians have been using this round for over a hundred years.”
Umm. . . . . All of those rounds are roughly the same age, give or take a decade, and all of them were the primary cartridge of their country from before WWI until after WWII. All of them were designed around the same basic set of criteria during the same era. Minor differences, virtually none, from the point of view of someone looking to pick up a bolt action rifle as a basic survival tool.
The guy seems to have done some good work, and I applaud him for that. But someone could have helped him upgrade it from 4th grade to, maybe, junior college level, without too much effort.